Keeping office dating a secret

“Many companies do have policies in place," says Mary Lorenz, Corporate Communications Manager at Career Builder, “Often companies will have employees sign some sort of office romance 'contract' to protect the company against sexual harassment claims or other legal action should the relationship go south." But generally, says Lorenz, companies have become much more accepting of office relationships, pointing to the fact that only about one-third of respondents to Career Builder's survey felt a need to keep their relationship secret.

This growing tolerance comes with an important caveat: “Companies expect workers to compartmentalize their work and personal lives," Lorenz says.

If you both don’t agree to keep the relationship secret, it’s a warning sign — one of you may be trying to gain power and control by isolating the other from friends and family.

Again, if it’s right after a break up, you might want to give it a week or two out of respect for the ex. When people really think about it, they often find they are keeping the relationship a secret because they don’t like the other person that much or knew they shouldn’t be together.

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However, if you or your partner wants to keep it a secret indefinitely, you might think twice about why you’re not ready to share.

But sometimes just when you’re ready to make every profile picture be a couple shot, your partner stops you: “Let’s just keep this a secret between us.” When a relationship’s secret, it might add to the excitement for awhile — you sneak around to new places, come up with secret meeting spots and maybe even have code names.

[Read: 15 very obvious flirting signs between a guy and a girl] Dating a boss and your love life There’s a lot of good in dating someone from the workplace, especially your boss.

The perks of dating them are plenty, and the time spent together, well that’s a lot too.

When you’re not openly forming a connection, it makes it harder to lay a solid foundation as a couple.

It also shows that both of you are good at keeping things from people, which doesn’t exactly build trust.